Spotted Gum is often used in wharf and bridge construction, railway sleepers, cross-arms, poles, piles and mining timbers. As unseasoned timber in general house framing and as seasoned dressed timber in cladding, internal and external flooring, decking, linings and joinery. Also in fencing, landscaping, retaining walls and as structural plywood, Internal fine furniture, outdoor furniture, turnery, joinery, and parquetry.
Other common uses are Tool handles, boat building (keel and framing components, planking, decking), coach, vehicle and carriage building, agricultural machinery, sporting goods (baseball bats, croquet mallets, spring and diving boards, parallel bars) and bent work. It has been used for butcher´s blocks, meat skewers, mallet heads, ladder rungs, wheel spokes, wine casks and broom handles. Spotted gum is the main Australian species for tool handles which are subjected to high impact forces, such as axe handles.
